“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.” PeopleKnowsIdeasRealityLonelinessLonelyGapsI Am Lonely Author:Anais Nin
“The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors. All this may precede the first look, kiss, or touch; precede ambition, pride, or envy; precede the first declarations which mark the turning point—for from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.” FirstsLooksMayTwoIdeasDifferentMomentsDesireLonelinessObjectsPrideHabitKissingAmbitionReflectionMarkMirrorsPossessionDuesEnvyCompareBelovedDeclarationPossessingTurning PointsDegenerates Book:The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea
“A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.” IfsKnowsChildrenIdeasRealMightConditionsLonelinessBirthUnderstoodLonelyBlindAcademicBlindnessBeing Lonely Book:It Source: It
“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.” MindIdeasBornSecretCreativityCreativeInfluenceLonelinessSolitudeInventionThriveOriginalityIntrovertBeing AloneIntriguingCripplesCreative MindSeclusionOutside Influences Author:Nikola Tesla
“Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.” LifeArtIdeasSoulRealityBeautifulAbilityCreativityStruggleLonelinessBlessingLonelyCurseDragCreative PeopleCreative PersonIdeas And CreativityBlessing To Others Author:Lou Dorfsman
“And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.” LifeFeelsLooksIdeasOrderLostCausesSimpleAcceptingLonelinessSalvationChaosOneselfGenuineFirmTragicSincereRhetoricGlancesRuthlessFarceSimple Truths Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars....But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable....It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.” KindIdeasEndsFeelingsRealityPainMovingStarsLonelinessParticularInvolvedDepressionMadnessAngryTerrorConfusionClarityShootingFrightenedOverwhelmingGrainUncontrollableElationShooting Star Author:Kay Redfield Jamison
“I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.” IdeasMightLonelinessEasierEndureDisappearArguing Author:Susan Orlean
“Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.” ArtIdeasRealGrowsLonelinessEstatesEgotistical Author:Robert Redford